Cyber security is an arms race with talent and technology at the helm – the side that employs the most advanced and intelligent resources will ultimately win.

– Jay Kaplan, CEO

About Us

Founded in 2013 by security experts Jay Kaplan and Mark Kuhr, Synack is redefining traditional models of security testing through revolutionary technology and innovative thinking. Our aim is to provide customers a scalable, continuous, hacker-powered intelligence platform that uncovers security vulnerabilities that often remain undetected by traditional pen testers and scanners. We call it Crowd Security Intelligence™, and it’s enabling some of the largest organizations in the world to fix security holes in their digital assets before criminal hackers exploit them.

With headquarters in Redwood City, California, Synack is a global organization with regional presence in cities around the US, UK, The Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and France. Our Synack Red team researchers represent over 40 countries around the world.

Synack launched in May 2013. And a lot has happened since then.

May 2013

Jay Kaplan and Mark Kuhr leave the NSA and launch the industry’s first solution to safely crowdsource vulnerability intelligence

Synack: What's in a Name?

To make a handshake work, two individuals have to reach out and acknowledge one another. Same goes for a digital TCP-handshake.

There are three steps in this handshake — Syn, Syn-ack, & Ack — required to negotiate and establish a TCP session between two computers. Much like the power of a human handshake, this connection creates a path for the transfer of information or data, which is at the core of our business.